Saudi Aramco awards Jazan grassroots refinery contract to KBR

TORONTO (ICIS)--Saudi Aramco has awarded US petrochemicals and engineering firm KBR a contract for work on a planned 400,000 bbl/day grassroots refinery at Jazan, Saudi Arabia, KBR said on Wednesday.

KBR, which won the project’s front-end engineering and design work, said the refinery and an associated marine terminal were designed to provide “a primary foundation industry” for the Jazan Economic City development on Saudi Arabia's southern Red Sea coast.